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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: treeclimber2852 on September 04, 2015, 10:44:52 AM

Title: Olympic Elk
Post by: treeclimber2852 on September 04, 2015, 10:44:52 AM: I will be out on the Olympic next weekend and had a question. If I have a good setup and location, would there be any benefit from using my climbing stand to get up high in a tree? Or should I leave it at home. I know from past whitetail experience that the higher up I got, the trickier the shot placement to get the double lung. With the Rosie's I wouldn't want to risk not getting a clean shot, so am I better off just parking it on the ground? I loved shooting from an elevated position, but again, this is all new to me.
Title: Re: Olympic Elk
Post by: fishngamereaper on September 04, 2015, 10:53:43 AM: IMO leave it...thick steep and nasty, stay on the move, find the elk, get ahead of them, ambush.
Title: Re: Olympic Elk
Post by: np205 on September 04, 2015, 03:41:40 PM: I've grown up out here hunting elk. I think in the right spot a tree stand would work good.
Title: Re: Olympic Elk
Post by: dreamunelk on September 05, 2015, 06:44:38 PM: Quote from: fishngamereaper on September 04, 2015, 10:53:43 AM
IMO leave it...thick steep and nasty, stay on the move, find the elk, get ahead of them, ambush.

:yeah:

Okay to take it along if you find the perfect spot. Most elk have home ranges of several thousand acres. Can take a days, weeks, or months to use a trail again. Then again they could use the same one for several days. You never know. If they are pasture elk and not disturbed then tree stand would work great.